Speakers

Guests of Honor

Rennes University is really active in the field of Crystallography and the YCM2 is the opportunity to introduce some local crystallographic specialties to the Young Crystallographers. That's why we have the pleasure to receive two guests of honor:

Éric Collet, Professor at the University of Rennes and the Institute of Physics of Rennes, CNRS Silver Medal 2020 and winner of the Alajos Kálmán Prize of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) 2022 for his high impact studies of ultra-fast femto second experiments, ultra-fast photo excitations like photo induced structural dynamics, phase transitions and molecular switching.

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Fabrice Pointillart, Researcher in molecular chemistry and materials at the Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences, CNRS Bronze Medal 2014 and leader of the ERC MULTIPROSMM, aiming to design multiple properties Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs) and to investigate their resulting magnetic and optical properties as well as their correlation/synergy.

© POINTILLART Fabrice

Invited Speakers:

Elena Bykova, Professor and junior research group leader at Institute of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, awarded the Max von Laue Prize by the German Crystallographic Society in 2018. She is developping single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments at extreme conditions in mineral physics and material sciences and discovered numerous new oxides, carbonates, silicates, borides, and carbides structures.

© Elena Bykova

Victor Gonzalez, Researcher at Supramolecular and Macromolecular Photophysics and Photochemistry laboratory (Paris Saclay, France), specialized on the chemical study of ancient materials, in particular those making up historic paint layers, identifying markers of the manufacturing processes and reactivity of ancient pictorial materials using multi-scale analytical methods to probe paintings.

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Serena Sirigu, Beamline Scientist at SOLEIL synchrotron, Structural biologist with broad experience in protein crystallization, X-ray crystallography and NMR techniques for protein structure resolution. She also participate to the creation of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Voyage au cœur du vivant avec les rayons X" ("Journey to the Heart of Life with X-Rays - Course").

© Serena Sirigu

Crystallographer Speaker from a Private Company:

Carlotta Giacobbe, from Thermofisher Scientific company, will present us her career path, her company and her work within Thermofisher Scientific company.